manjund
I am in the extremely fortunate (and tough) position of deciding between Kellogg (w/ a $40K scholarship - $20k per year), Tuck (no $ - I'll be speaking to fin. aid next week and will update if this changes), and SOM (no $ - should be hearing back from fin. aid in the next week or two).
What makes the decision even harder is the lack of admit weekends and, while I've reached out to students and alumni from each, I'd love to crowdsource some opinions here from less-biased folks.
My current thought right now is Kellogg > Tuck > SOM, but Kellogg and Tuck are fairly neck-and-neck and if Tuck were to come back with a competitive scholarship offer, I don't know how I would make a choice between the two. I'd probably reconsider SOM if they returned with a competitive scholarship that I basically couldn't refuse (ie. half ride or more).
Career Goals:
- The current thought is to go into strategy/innovation consulting immediately after b-school and long-term I'd like to work in the global health space (healthcare delivery). I'm not totally sold on the frequent travel associated with consulting (I'm currently a consultant lol) post-MBA, so the secondary option would be an in-house strategy role related to healthcare tech/innovation.
- Location-wise post-MBA, I'm looking at Boston, Seattle, Chicago, and Austin for the most part, but would consider other major cities depending on the opportunity. All this to say, I'd like to make sure whichever school I choose has a wide-ish reach and solid network in most major cities.
Let me know if I can provide more information!
I don’t know what Tuck’s healthcare recruiting looks like but Kellogg has a pretty strong group of people interested in healthcare and robust healthcare recruiting. There is also a prof who is very well respected in the healthcare strategy space. Craig Garthwaite do you may be interested in looking him up. Hard for me to say who “wins” the battle in the healthcare space because I’m not familiar with the offerings at Yale or tuck for global health but I definitely think you will find plenty of support and resources at Kellogg in that space.
Kellogg is a consulting powerhouse so among the 3 they win there.
The biggest difference between Kellogg and the other two are program size. Kellogg’s program is one of the largest whereas tuck and Yale are on the small side. The plus side of being smaller is that you get to know everyone in your class really really well. The downside is that everyone knows everyone really really well. There is no privacy and it is difficult to escape the bschool bubble. Another downside is that the alumni network is also a lot smaller. If it was important to me that I know everyone in my class and I wanted a small program AND tuck/Yale offered money (Yale would have to be significantly more money) then I would pick one of the other two, but if I don’t care about class size I would take Kellogg.
Posted from my mobile device